Tea Party After My Groceries Too!

[BlueStreak]

Originally Posted by finnbow

What about it? As a CSRS retiree, the government did not pay any matching funds whatsoever.


Yep, though only career retirees. Same goes for medical care, BTW, if they live near enough to an Armed Forces Hospital to make it worthwhile.

My sister gets VA medical care with 8 years of service. But anyone with less than 20 years must prove financial hardship in order to get it. You have to have no other options.

[finnbow]

Originally Posted by BlueStreak

S-t-r-e-t-c-h.

If you want to play that game, anyone who is registered for the draft or could be recalled to duty because of attrition in a truly horrendous war is "owed" all of these things.

I'm thinking that unless you were actually shot at, bombed, tortured or at the very least in immediate danger of facing these things at some point in your career, you are "owed" nothing more than any federal civil servant receives.

Dave

Indeed. The highest risk for many REMF's (rear echelon Motherf......) was getting the clap or drinking themselves to death.

[icenine]

Originally Posted by finnbow

What about it? As a CSRS retiree, the government did not pay any matching funds whatsoever.


Yep, though only career retirees. Same goes for medical care, BTW, if they live near enough to an Armed Forces Hospital to make it worthwhile.

Yeah but I think one could still participate in the various options of the TSP?
or am I wrong?


Even if you are not near a MTF retirees use Tricare to cover costs....

plus any veteran with an honorable discharge can be seen by the VA....

I can actually be seen by the VA and the military hospitals since being retired I am also a veteran

[finnbow]

Originally Posted by icenine

Yeah but I think one could still participate in the various options of the TSP? or am I wrong?

I could pick any of the fund options (G,C,F and balanced L funds), but the government did not contribute anything.

Even if you are not near a MTF retirees use Tricare to cover costs....

plus any veteran with an honorable discharge can be seen by the VA....

I can actually be seen by the VA and the military hospitals since being retired I am also a veteran

This only indicates that it's worse than I thought. I see no reason for providing medical care to honorably discharged veterans other than those with service-related illnesses/disabilities. Am I to understand that if you're a desk jockey at Fort Riley, Kansas for 4-5 years and have an honorable discharge, you get VA care for life? No wonder we're in debt.

[icenine]

http://www.blogs.va.gov/VAntage/586/...a-health-care/

maybe not as easy as I mentioned, but the VA certainly is not discouraging veterans from finding out if they are eligible

[bobabode]

Originally Posted by icenine

plus any veteran with an honorable discharge can be seen by the VA....

No charge? What if you have a job with healthcare after your H/D? Nevermind, just read your link.

[icenine]

Originally Posted by bobabode

No charge? What if you have a job with healthcare after your H/D?

I have always been under the assumption that VA health benefits were part of being honorably discharged.....perhaps I am mistaken. But check out the VA web page.

[bobabode]

Better you not complain about something that hasn't a snowball's chance in hell of happening, Robbin. It just pisses off the civvies who fund it.

[icenine]

I am not complaining.
I want to go to the Commissary like everyone else.
But if it goes away it goes away.

[Rex E.]

Pretty darn so************************t if not almost communist organization the gov't is running......